THE “NEW” DETECTOR IS BEING INSTALLED AT LSC

The NEW detector has arrived at LSC and is being installed. NEXT collaboration has decided to deploy a first stage of the NEXT detector, the NEW (NEXT-WHITE) apparatus (the name honours the memory of Professor James White, recently deceased and one of the key scientists of the NEXT Collaboration).

The construction of NEW and the completion of the infrastructures needed at LSC (which are the same for NEW and the final detector) started in 2014 and will end in the first months of 2015. It is therefore foreseen to commission and take data with NEW during the next few months.